The Sun. — London, England, 1818-01-06 00:00:00

• Preserves tlfe Peake of an stirrottoding ‘Stl I • t ek • 1! RCA • we regret to add that we cordially -3( 1 ;) with hint, tliough We relitetantly express our : :sentiments on . tlie subject, where be says that he, ear inct avoid observing— . . i s That the actions of those ftnefgn doVernments which l' r elended to redress grievances, have girt!' a serious shock _ l O the hest feeling's of social 'justice and national right. For - li 'sta9ce 7 Wh at soun d and indepen d cut mind can approve t • -belt conduct respecting the King of. Saxony? What - ilid sal ly du more thou those Powers who stepped her Of her : 4 4 " '! ai ns? Then ag a i n , th e re cognition of Murat, Berna • •It ! e ' Joseph, Louis, and Jercrhe Iltionaparte; and who cat ,-r s _ ll 4 ll alifted approval on the policy pursued at Pr ague, o/i nner of 1813, a n d at - -in 1813? Indeed, 7 t heirN c o nduct in this respect has been c o n si s t en t ; for at Lbe time th e y• were combatint; Jacobinisth in France, in , 170 4 4 v'.e.Ylvere guilty of the very same excesses. Wit neis the di b;'rt e fPoland, an d t h e ap p ro p r iati on o f Thorn Da'nmc g ; Prussia,,, . -- cont , tet,particularly that towardsSAXoNY, . 1111 sti nk(' all the triumphs over the Usurper of alice • History will fix a brand on it, and ex- CO "th e same sentiments . as the independent ti ""Qtor of The British Monitor, who has amply t: " for errors of his youth - by unveiling -"Il e character of the Cursican Monster, and I.l7, el° Peil more ably and fully than any other d et the genuine nature, principles, : and te?- ne Y cf that dreadful volcano of 'political bor . 1.43--the.-Prenc4) I,le,`dolutiv". •" DUTIES. - It affords us satisfaction to that the poblie attention is directed rto tlk extrcm e injustice of the'present Intale of rais /lig a Duty' on Coals. It may he a question, i n so un d piney,: any tax on this article sett beiltstified; or rather, whether, in point of levenne, more i s not l os t than gained by, its im- . Position. At all events, nothing can be so tin ' "I' 4 ' l as to charge 'this tax in the sha p e of a . , 7 Coasting altY, which those who could &est afford i t ) Pay it, wholly 'escape, and which falls with unfair tressure on th ose at a distance from the Mines t he price i s hi g h, from the expense of i "'ight and other charges. It is remarkable that strange partiality 1113 SO long been unnoticed; th e contentions of rival interests appear to ""`'e torced it on the attention of Government. 1 1 ‘ 1 , onild thry propose any proper substitute for ss isnpolitic tax, or a new system', which , will er "tet tibe D o ty on C OAL equa l throughout the , ;llgdom, they w ill, d ou btle s s, meet ".with gene . t : ti (h anks And support.; for we count as oothing " e :appositio n of a few interested Individuals. ST. lIELENTA.—The ship Sence, Captain f -L6u Kt:.-arriv v d at New Yolk on the Ist alt. Cant on , She tonclird at. St. Helena on the Oett ' llier, for soPplies and water The Li "sit corvette Faie n ds kip, matte 4he Island at Tl : . t "nle• time. ,PioVisions were uncommonly attidear ; th e setts of the vessels stationed at e the isla n d had for many months been living on . ' t l i utl 'ihg; but salt provisions. Tile Conqueror, 74, •1 •• Leveret, and nine small r acooD, 1,1.1'81)Ort ships, were the only .vessels there:— "ines were all quiet with regard to N'AroLsoN, "(1 h e was in (rood health. His Secretary, it 'vas said, had been detected in attempting an illicit . c l ° t r esPontlen ce w i t h some p e rs o n or persons, in the t uwo, and h a d been sent off to the Cape of 11 ()Pe• The - Ca ptahr also states that there -t a d been. some shocks of an earthquake felt there s ° l lte short time before he made the Island ; but the account brought by the -Pal:ldiom of its being lv vallowetLop is.proved to be.utifounded, as the vnee a touched foil twenty.days after the reported titte of its disappeal ance. Pamott LEoPoLo.—Yesterday morning Prince eoeo LD having determined on going through his J T"'neY, froM Claremont to Came, in the course of the„ day, .rose between four and five o'clock, 41111 leaving Claremont with his suite, in three r oache s and four, they arrived at the Bush Inn, at tailies, about seven o'clock, and passed Lgliam about half-past seven. They ''autten horses at the King's Arms, at Bagshot ; the White Lion, at Ilart foul Bridge ; Ponson's Arms, at Overton ; th e S tar , at A n d o v er ; the A t . tit t e l()Pe, at Sali s b ur y ; W oo d ge l' s I nn , a t Bland ; and frotn there to' Canle, - the seat of Alrs.. DAMP:It, where his Serene Highness was expected to arrive at nine o'clock. THE CLERGy.--Tlie Non-Resident Clergy are rentinded that the last Clergy Resident Act con tains a ciau se , by which every spiritual person, being Non-resident by reason of residence upon any other benefice; o r o f a ny e x emption under the Act, and to mid e hi m t o which it is not ricers easy to obtain any licence under the Act, is re quired, within six weeks after the first of January art every year, to notify the same to the Bishop; the naturp - of such exemption, and `Whether the gross annual value of the benefice, ch which he is non-resident, amounts to or ex red, 3001 . per annurn, or not. The clause ex oetnis also to -such spiritual persons as are .resi7 at any period of the year, or any dignity or -of fice in cathedrals. THE LATE DO' KE• OF NoRTHLT / MEEELAND--An additional instance of the friendship of h t his munificent Noblemao has been privately Mentioned. An Officer of some rank, at present In the service, and who had served with his Grace 311 Y, years ago, w as . appointed t o a distant sta lion, riot being w e a l t h y, an d having.consider . ;.consider able expellees to def ra y b e f ore he left England, _ne appli ed to the Duke for some trifling loan, tv, 7natde him t o di scharge them ; when his - Grace Insta ntly Made him a re sent of Four Thousand Po timis ! • . . RoYAL ACADEMr—Last night J. M. W.ltra -I.Esq• deli vere d hi s opening LectUte on the 1. 1 1 . 116 1 )1 es of P erspect i ve at the Royal AendLIHY• vva l s was the fi rst L ecture. since the holidays, and ce Bde's ctiPtive of th e g e nera l out li ne o f the sue cuing ones which the Professor of Perspective be to deliver. SECOND E' SUi\T-OFFICE, Two O'CLOCK. The following is an Official Abstrstici of the Net. Prodtice of the REVENUE in the Quarters . , ended th.e . sth 'January 1817 Custnths • Excise Stamps P,,st Taxei Laud Taxei Nliseepaneous Unappropriated War Duties Total Consolidated F and and 1818 : Qrs. -ended sth Jan. .1817. . 18.15. 1,317,381 '4;484,440 1,461,324. :131,o(y) 2,84,48 , 1 _371,006 10,545,853 2.45'5,G2$ 4.695,07 , 1 1,5c6,532 3 i 9,60t> 2,2R0,1.)17 . 353-,GiU 255,318 6,.03 11_914,373 Annual Duties to pay off Bills Custonis Excise , Pensions, &c ' t;70.827 337,097 4,016 555,935 • 36,441 1,211,940 595,454 Total Annual Duties 11,757,722 12,509,&07 permanent and Annual Duties. WAR TAXES. Customs Excise Property Total War Taxes Total Net Itei•enue 7 , 30,fifi2 1,292,205 2,073,:”9 th,831;18/ Late tHIRRICANE in the WEST 768,157 389,048 1,157,205 13,607,012 NDIES. A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER oN BOAKD HIS MA JESTY'S SHIP ANTELOPE, AT ST. KITT'S, NOV. 12. " Since my last letter to you, we have un dergone.great variety of weather, and, were out in the hurricane which took place on the 21st of October, and as many reports have gone abroad from some of the West India Islands, that we suer: lost, I embrace the first opportunity, by the sailing of a merchant brig, the Cheerly, to tell you of our being safe•antl sound, as are all the ships of our squadron, but• the Antelope has escaped in a most miraculous manner. IVe were lying at St. Lucie quietly at anchor, only the day be the hurricane came on, aml got under sail for Barbadoes (as was our intention) 'about seven in • the morning of the 20th, it being fine weather. At twelve o'clock the night tollowiug the officer of the watch hailed the thastcr, and said, the wind had come round •to the north-west,, which was very Unusual in this country, where easterly vrinds prevail all the year through, and that the weather appeared to be coming on bad ; the Ad , niiral and Captain were irs►nrediately upon deck ; we took in all our sails except the torisail, which was reefed ; got the top-gallant masts upon deck, and prepared for the worst. At three in the moral - ing of the 21st instant-, it blew very hard at west, l_with tremendous heavy rain—at four still hamlet•; ,! took in our fore-sail, and brought her,to limier a ' try-sail double reefed : at seven yet harder, when a sea came and washed away one of our boats, from► the stern. When ten o'clock came ii blew , . a perfect hurricane., beyond what Any of us lead ever witnessed ; however, the ship 1: ! iy very quiet, and behaved very well; hot from the heaviness '. and quantity of lain, with the immense lover of wind, all our cabins were full of water. At noon the wet tier abated,. and at three in the afternoon it became quite moderate, when we set, on.r sails , again. I call the escape of the -Antelope miraen- i' lons, because, if we had remained at St. L , .eie' one night more, not an• tesom of the ship would ever have been, seen, noticing could have saved us from shipwreck. Every ship we left there w.as lost. The town barracks lend bitilding• of every kind were blown down. At the village of Gri).s. islet only three hawses are left standing ant of about 150 ; the Governor (Major-General ,Sey- ' rmour) was killed ; also Major Burdett, his wife• I and children wet e 'killed, by being buried in the • ruins qt their house, blown in upon them. We visited St. Lucie again sixteen days .afterwards, and the scene was such as my pen camibt describe : many of the inhabitantslost their Clothes, and i those who are sick, are lying ate the- wound with Ino other covering than the, sky, exposed to sun ' land rain. An officer in one of the tegiments, see r lug the approach of the hurt inane, pelt a few I clothes into a small trunk, and hid it, as he thought, in a place of safety ; when the weather I was Over, lee found his trunk bad been blo . Nlll away, and the' lid of it was found more than halt i a mile off. The solniers and others were obliged Ito lie clown on the ground and hold themselves 1 fast by the grass, or any thing they could get to I save themselstes. This may appear strange, but so it was : the power of the wind was excessive. The island of St. Lucie has suffered the most.-- , 1 The .vessels Were driven on shore at Barbadoes and Martinique, but no damage of any conse quence to the hotises -or . other buildings. Very fortunately all our little squadron, viz. Scamander, Brazen, and Childers, are safe. :,The Brazen lost her boat, but nothing more. In short, the fatal 21st of October will be felt and temeuib e red by the St. Luciano 'as long as they live . " PORTSMOUT , I, JAN.. s.—Sailed hit Majesty's ship .Grecian on a cruise. • SHEERNFSS, JAN. s.—The brig mentioned yes terday.as being on the Blythe is not an American, but the Hibernia, of Waterford, hound to Lon, don ; she was still on s ll ore Otis morning. 117/6 . ybettits Sense 9—We bare beard of a Play called " Who wants a Guinea ?" This was curious enough., but it was reserved for the ingenious Author of-an " LSsAY ou . CAPAUITY and GENIUS," lately put:11 , 11(A, to ask, Who wants Sense? . It is indeed a strange question, and certainly seems, rather rrradoxic.ll. Fist 'till now it has been held au axiom, that one roan Wits 1)9111 a Poet, another a Philosopher, and a third an Orator, while the rest of mankind were born to drag on-a dull, plodding 'devoid of all 'Dental energy. But the scene is now changed, and men are now told from the pen of a rhilmopher,o(Mr. Locke's school, that all men are equally capable of improvement in intellect—that they are not born with particular organs which should sit limits to their understandtin,rs. He has examined the- lives of il lustrious men in all . the departments of Literature, and shews that an)' individual, placed in similar circumstances, might become equally eminent. The Theory is benevolent, ii‘nd we hope universal perusal marshew it. is foniuLed in trutk. in short, the . Anthoi - of. the Essay on capacity ; autl tstaius F orth that any man who wants may have Seco. 0 E T It. V. . . ATYDRESSED TO 51. TtEiCA.ZE, ON A At CF..NT NdArINTATIOIST. TO TUE LEGIOV 00 HONOUR. s narls les terns afireux d'autreftri.; On mettait sans pixie les voleurs snrla croix ; GI tee au o)am... , ,ement de nos mecurs, . 'C'est ia Oi2C aujonrd'hni qu'on met sur les roleurs. TitANSI.I7ION. In ancient times--'twas no great loss hey hung I he thief 'won the cross ; But now, alas.! 1 sao with grief, We hatig the Cross spun the thief. - •• . • REGISTER OF FASHION. rASHIONABLF. CHANGES. The Earl and Countess of Coventry and family, from Croome,W-orcestershire, .to•Streat ham, Surrey.; the Duke of Devonshire, for, his seat, Chatsworth, Derbyshire; the.Mar gnis of.Tavistoek, at his seat in Bedfordshire, from a tour; LOrd Middleton, at his seat, Briddal, from,War wiekshif e; 'the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Long Wdlesley, fOr Wan stead-House, Essex. sPokriNo INTELLIGENC. STATENIENT OF T . F . -1E ODDS : pN THE DEkBY AND' OAKS sTAKEs, 1818.— JAN. b. • . DrBBY..'• • • Taken 10 to 1 airct c. by 0. c ille, out of Allegretta. 10 to 1 agst Waty, out of.Millonia.:- Taken 12 to 1 agst c. by Sorcerer.-out of Hornby Lass. 13 `to 1 apt c. hy WaXy, oryt of Ringtail. 16 to 1 agst Brother to Crecy. 17- to 1 agst ch. e. lry Marmion ; out of Lancashire Witch. . • •• 17 to 1 agst c. hySelim, out of Parasol. • • OAKS. Taken G to 1 agst Loo, by Waxy. • • • to 1 agaiust any other. , . • N.B. For the NeWmailit t St. Leger Stakei twenty-five colts and fillies are named, and for the Doncaster St. Leger Stakes fifty. one. On the Doncaster Stakes 11 to 2 was betted and taken about Mr. Lumley's Castrella colt; and on the New market Stakes 10 to 1 about the Miltonia colt. TIVNTING.—tIie Pi-ince Regent's Stag Hounds meet Fri day, at Maidenhead Thicket, at ten, if hunting weather.----The Duke of Grafton's Hounds inert to-morrow, at Ash Ley,, at half:past test.—The Hatfield Hounds •meet Thursday, at Luton ; Saturday, :11 . 1(ennel, at half-past ten. FROM THE. warisu MONITOR, (Late ANTI-GALLICAN) of Sunday last, Jan. 4. NAPOLEON'S CAMPAMN IN SAXONY, IN THE YEAR 1813, BY BARON VON ODELF,BEN L AN FAL WITNESS IN THE FRENCH HEAD-QUARTERS. " Napoleon's Generals were accustomed to hold themselves in readiness to proceed from place to place at a otoment's warning, and blindly to sacrifice themselves to the.will of the Emperor.— Sottlt hArl receody ordered his best ,cavalry to re move ftdor Spain to Germany. During the ar mistice, his lady quitted Paris fur Dresde►► ; ..two days alter her arrival•there, the Emperor having received intimation of the retrograde movement of his troops from t'itroria !o the French Iron tier, Souk was again unexpe ctedly appointed tc take a co,mniand in Spain. He was unocr t h e tie. cessity of departhig Chat Vey 'night,. otr horses, mules, ana carriages, and distni*sing his •servants.. The Officers of his Stall were in the smile s it li atitw, as 4 he greater number accontßanied ; the Duchess bid farewell to the bean- fill city of Dresden, atter a visit of three. days. Napoleon'* Adjutants, Se,cretarif s, Orderly Officc!s„and every individuell near him, from the Great Ecuyer to the uwa.lest attendant, were sub jected to the most incredible drudgery and con straint. Canlaincourt was indefatigable in his at- tendance, and, like wore compelled to be it: readiness to serve the Emperor hourly, and even momentarily ; and, at the s-me time, to ob serve a certain degree of elegance in their dress. In the towns cvhere Napoleon usually fix: d his quarters, all were crowded together; besides the Emperor's sitting-loom, cabinet, the salott de ser vice, and dining-room for the Officers', a bed chamber and study were always assigned to Ver thier, so that the Aides-de-camp wile freuently obliged to content thenrselves with very miserable accommodation. A man' of high birth, like Ge ner,at Narbonne, who, in'the'capaeity of Ambas sador at Vienna, formerly enjoyed the most splen did establishment,'frequentiv lay, daring the lat ter half of the campaign, as Aide-de-camp to the Emperor;on a bed of straw, or a pair of stools, in Napoleon's anti-chamber, in order to be ready to rouse him perhaps six or eight times in one . night, whenever any important accounts or dispatches arrived. In N ipoleon's anti-chamber the whole of the Officers on duty lay on beds of straw ; two Aides-de-camp, each of whom had an Aide-de :camp under him, a Chamberlain, two Orderly Officcis, and two pages—and when there was the slightest expectation of an approaching rupture or engagenosnt, all were ready at a moment's warning.' Thus• the anti-chamber not onfre (rettily presented an appearance similar to the bowels of the Trojan horse. Rostan, tfte cele brated Mamebike, whom Napoleon had hio.:glit with him Irani' Egypt, slept on the ground 'treat' she Emperor's apartments, generally facing the door ; he served Napoleon in the capacity of a Squire, resembling, in all respects, theirtithful Sancho Pa_oza, except that he was not under the necessity of attending to his own steed, and had as many relays as the 'Emperor himself. As soon as Napoleowmounted his horse, Rostati was be hind !rival, carrying his great coat, cloak, a small portmanteau, and an oil-skin covering for himself. tle stressed and undressed Napoleon, was con staidly near his person, and occasionally waited at his table. It is honouring him too far to \ suppose that he shared the confidence of Narniloon, or wAs . invested with a certait'rrook. Though Rostan had irolo wed the Emperor in various etigki , ,:e , teott; yet he never Obtrined the Cross of the Legion 01 Honour. Caulaincourt,.and the Officert who had served longest under the Emperor, always address ed hhn in the langitage which they ;night he ex pected to use to an interior, and he lived with the superiOr Officer's of the Emperor's lionieltidd.---- Rostan hag now become a naturalized Frenchman, and is married to a Parisian woman, whose por trait be wears iu his busurn. There. is something so exlrelridy, Tre.F.ssrs nhotit this m rhe eandidexpression I,,r4tt hrown,,eyvs, and frankii! 4 ss - 01 untilner, tat .t it is b . ,t no, weans ,snypiising. that NaNleot) have placed, issipticitreiiJnee uu hi, fidelny.q : Atid Itostah did nor .tollmy the Filiiperorwheti'lle.was ii;lrledlroin the sitinpit of This -t4lor_si,,ariii to retire to Elba.. I l erl►aps,he dreaded the irti table disposition of Napoleon, and preferred re siding n) Paris—a place to which be is much at - tactse!L . liesiiles Rostan,_ there was a sham ?:slamelnke' in the service of the Emperor, hisbead -Quart ers. lie was .a native of 4 Versailli,s,, and 't.tioi:git he a ore the same sort. of, dress as Rostan, he was tar fromeurying the smite p r ivileges. lie was k - ept en reser,ce withjhe.rest ok the herras Itostan was alWays near the person of the - Emperor himself. • • , At. Napoleon', bead quarters '-a 'particular apartment ,was always fixed upon, as a study for hint and his : Cabinet Secretary. This closet was looked ,upon as more important than theEmperin's own 'private chamber. Witch Napoleon bivouacked Atrith his. :troops, a closet was Imediately fitted up acrjuiuing his own tent. lothe centre stood a large, table, over which, was spread a map of the theatreof,,the war. During the, CaMpaign of Saxony, he made use of l'etri's map, •the same tot - viticit he Mad been accustomed to refer in the year 106 . ; and on which he set great value. This map was already spread out in proper form before Na poleon entered the house, and stuck over with ohms various colours,, to mark the positions of tie various corps d'arinees and the enemy. This was,t he business of the Director of his Topogra phic Bureau, who was constantly engaged with him, and wit() was acipiainted with the positions better than any other individual. This map was his inSeparable companion, and the most essential piece of his portable furniture. At night it was surrounded lty '2O to 30 candles, in the centre of which the 'Compasses were placed. . When be mountd his horSe, rhe Grand Ecuyer Caulain coilit; who was constantly near his person, always carried the map fas7ened to his breast, that he might be in readiness to produce it whenever the Emperor called out " la carte." "- it °nee happened that the Emperor wanted the map, and the pieces were not placed in the proper order. Ile seethed to be transported into a foreign Country, gild, with some degree of irri tation, he proceeded toat range time divisions him self. At this moment a violent gust of wind arose. and threw them all in disorder. Napoleon, in a fit o f p a ssion, seiz.d the map, and threw it mind; r the feet of the horse on which the Duke de Vicenza was riding. His txcellency was Under time necevity of alighting, and with the assistance of 3-1. page once mot e'spread out time map. The Emperor appeared, however, to repent of his rash ness, for a teW moments atter he said, in a softened. tone, Dounez mai la carte anti requested that Camila - int-mat would put it in order. • " In the. four corners of Napoleon's Cabioec small tables were placed. wheueser they could he plocured, at which the Etnperor, his 6ecretaries, bod the Director of his Bureau Topo,;raphique, were accustomed to write. Ile usually (tie: iteit tO this latter, MINI lie paced ahnut tine room, 'dressed in his ordinary wren uni!otni, 'and not mu:frequently wearinz, his hat, As be was'accus tomed to have all the fancies that entemed his head pot into execution with the utmost expedi tion, no one could were whit sufficient 'avidity for hiM, and it .consequently became necessary to write his thoughts by cyphers. " It is impossible to conceive the-rapidity with which Napoleon , dictated, anal decree of faci lity which his Secretaries attained in this species of writing. One of them, who was a very young man, excelled all the rest in ' expedition. The cyphers employed were of course klieroglyphics. A Dragon's tail was used- to express the whole French Army—a ship, time corps of- bavoust—a thorn, the Mils!' Empire.---ii mushroom, com mercial cities, &c. It- is said that Napoleon poss. sessed singular facility itt decyphering this hiero glyphic writing, which may readily be supposed, since he himself fixed the signification of the signs which were made use of. • " Notwithstandiog th, • numerous secretaries and clerks employed in N a poleon's C a binet, n one of his proceedings.jvere ever divulged. '1 here Was an officer styled Gardien du Portefeuil, who was, perhaps, - the most patient man in all France Amidst all the ulit& of war, his anode of living was certainly more simple, though, at the sante time, more wearisome than any other individoal at the head-quarters. Several year, of tried fide lity tendered his situation - a permanent Though he was dressed like a common Huissier, yet he wore his embroidered collar, which was the insignia of the high officers of the court. The Valets-de-Chambrehmi rite care `of the lat ge leather porte•folio of the Cabinet, and the boxes contain ing the papers of tile iltircats Topographique. The G a rdien din Portp j feuil was the Keeper of the Sanc tuary, like the Sphinx in . the Gardens of the Egyptians, and he never quitted time door of , the Cabinet, except when it was necessary to relieve him on aceount - of excessive fatigue. To fi:l this office, a vigorous constitution and au extraordinary share of patience were requisite, tor, when Na poleon took a fancy to sit up and mite for the whole night, he 'was never suffneal to stir front hiS post. This was it simple but a utmost painful duty, when the head -quarters atare fixed it, one place for any length of time. The moveable ar ticles belonging to the Cabinet, or Bureau Tupo 7 groplaque, which al stays follnwed the head-quar revs, were ustially conseyeil in two e4ri }ages. The greater portion wits, however, HI behind oma the frontiers, prev ‘ iwis to Napoli:o..l's advance to SaZouv, ‘. Dieting the Jtuss,ian catnpaign a most serious tel . *" was likewise sustained, a the , opinian of the Officers at the Emperor's hold, was quite kr( parable. Of 'all the beautital maps and plans witti et hkh Napolvon had 0.11 this occasion provided himself, not a •single sheet was saved. The fcwofficets of the tlouse hold who e sc a ped, thought dicinseh es happy ill possessiog even t he articles of - nece , sary clothing. Napoleon's beautiful collection of nwiuscripts be came A prey to the general desola ion allay valakble works, by taling iota the - 11'a a ds o f the scientific and powelful, coutribute to ,the,wellare of empires instead of their destruction!"